Introduction
Mulan is a popular female hero in China. She has been in the military camp for more than ten years and has not been recognized by her comrades. It is really a legend.
Therefore, while people have praised her for thousands of years, there have been voices of doubt, and they suspect that such absurd and bizarre thing is impossible. However, in history, there are really many real deeds of men dressed in women and joining the army and fighting in the army, which indirectly confirms that this is indeed possible.
During the Xianfeng period, the Qing army encircled and suppressed the vigorous Taiping Heavenly Kingdom movement. In 1862, the Qing generals Dolonga and Yuan Jiasan ( Yuan Shikai Uncle) jointly encircled Luzhou, Anhui (now Hefei).
Qing army was insufficient, so they launched a list of recruitment everywhere. In Jingziguan (Jingziguan Town, Xichuan, Henan), a teenager applied to join the army. The young man was dark and had a bad face. Although he was young, Kong Wu was powerful and looked like a calf. Duolonga was very satisfied and ordered him to raise a horse. No one knew that the young man was actually a woman. Because of his rough and ugly appearance, no one doubted him. Her real name is not recorded in history. Let us call her "Qinglan" here.
Qinglan worked very hard in the army. She first raised horses, but soon she started fighting with weapons. Although she was a woman, she was extremely brave and fierce. She made many military achievements and was constantly promoted.
It is indeed not easy for a woman to get involved in the crowd of men. Qinglan never poops and pees with men, let alone take a shower. However, she looks so masculine, so even so, no one suspects that she is a woman.
However, everyone suspected that "he" might have physiological defects, such as the male root being injured or lost, so he felt ashamed of himself and did not want to be with everyone. Anyway, no one suspects that she is a woman. In this way, Qinglan was safe and kept lingering in the military camp. After pacifying the Taiping Army, Qinglan followed Zuo Zongtang to Shaanxi and Gansu to pacify the rebellion there. His identity has been promoted to "Record Admiral Batulu"! That is, the warriors who are equivalent to the treatment of an admiral. It can be seen how brave this person is good at fighting.
Qinglan's official position is the Yongying Coordinator. Because he is illiterate, he recruited a clerk Zhu Sheng. Zhu Sheng and Qinglan seem to have two wrong couples. Qinglan is extremely ugly, like a man. Zhu Sheng is the opposite, with a tender skin and tender flesh, like a woman.
Although Qinglan has been fighting on the battlefield for many years, she is bloodthirsty and has a rough personality than a man, she is a woman after all. When she sees the person she loves, she is like a dead tree in spring, and the girl is leisurely in love with spring.
One night, Qinglan invited Zhu Sheng to have a drink in the tent. Qingmulan drank a little more, and her heart was full of spring, showing a womanly delicate appearance. Zhu Sheng was shocked. He thought that the commander was as good as Long Yang, but he didn't like homosexuality, so he refused in every way. Qinglan was furious and pulled the knife to Zhu Sheng’s neck, and then he was killed!
Zhu Sheng had to submit. Unexpectedly, after the two went to bed, Zhu Sheng was surprised to find that his big and thick commander was actually the daughter of a yellow flower! What a great wonder he encountered! From then on, the two of them were inseparable from each other, looking forward to the early nightfall all day long, and the men and women love each other.
Not long after, Qinglan became pregnant. Both of them were stunned. Qingmulan could no longer dress up if this continued. If the court knew about it, it would probably be cured for Qingmulan's crime of deception.
Zhu Sheng knew that Zuo Zongtang admired Qinglan very much, so he plucked up his courage and secretly visited the governor Zuo. He first knelt down and licked Zuo Zongtang as Zhuge Liang of the current world, and said that he had met Mulan of the current world. I told you about Qinglan again.
Zuo Zongtang was shocked when he heard this, but was he still trying to cover it up for him?
Zuo Zongtang's aide thought of a way to ask Qinglan and Zhu Sheng to exchange their names and identities, so that they can fool the court.
Just like that, Zhu Sheng became Qinglan, Qinglan became Zhu Sheng, and the two secretly gave birth to a child and were sent to foster care.In 1874, Zuo Zongtang quelled the rebellion of Shaanxi and Gansu and rewarded all the generals. Zhu Sheng and Qinglan were different from Qinglan and did not like military careers, so he took the opportunity to resign from his military position and returned to Zhu Sheng's hometown with Qinglan and his children.
After returning home, Zhu Sheng changed his heart and despised Qinglan for being ugly and vulgar. He married two concubines. Qinglan was furious and turned into a tomboy. He beat Zhu Sheng, the unfaithful man, and took his children away. He disappeared from now on...
This anecdote is an officer named Fan Xiaoyun next to Zuo Zongtangbiao, who told his fellow villager a literati named "Liang Xi Shuguan Old Man" that he included in the collection of essays written by him in the "Wild Records of the Qing Dynasty". There is no way to verify whether it is true or false. However, during the Xianfeng period, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom and Shaanxi and Gansu Rebellion were in chaos, and any bizarre and strange things could happen, so this kind of thing is still quite possible.